Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“If my master could, then I can definitely do the same. I won’t disappoint my master’s hopes for me.”
Ye Lingshan’s grip on her sword suddenly tightened. Upon raising her sword, arcs of light soared into the sky.
A divine mark appeared on her forehead. Her manifestation split open, and tens of thousands of swords flew out of the opening. As a result, the world rumbled as Ye Lingshan activated a paragon art.
“You’re igniting your blood soul? Have you gone crazy, you damn woman?!”
The one facing Ye Lingshan, the Corrupt King Ming Jie, was shocked and infuriated. He didn’t know if she had gone insane, but she was actually igniting her blood soul. That was something completely self destructive.
What he didn’t know was that Ye Lingshan was still unable to completely control her paragon art. Her paragon art was a treasure related to the karmic luck of the entire Martial Heaven Alliance. Its power wasn’t something that other paragon arts could compare to.
“My life belongs to the Martial Heaven Alliance. For my brothers and sisters of the Martial Heaven Alliance, I, Ye Lingshan, am willing to bleed my last drop of blood. Ming Jie, today, only one of us is leaving here alive.” Ye Lingshan was completely determined.
Her voice resounded through the battlefield. Every disciple of the Martial Heaven Alliance heard it. Their morale surged, and they crazily attacked.
Millions of swords flew toward Ming Jie. He let out a furious roar, and a black world appeared behind him. He was also using a paragon art.
Their two paragon arts clashed, causing the entire battlefield to shake intensely. Astral winds tore through the air. However, a muffled sound appeared after just a moment, and the black world was submerged by the endless swords.
Ming Jie’s corpse was torn apart. The instant that his physical body was destroyed, an indistinct black light shot out of his body and into the ground.
“Don’t try to use the same move twice.”
Suddenly, Li Qi smiled. Runes appeared on the ground, and a strange object flew out.
The object instantly blew apart. Ming Jie’s furious roar came from it.
His substitute puppet art had actually failed because of Li Qi. He hadn’t managed to switch his physical body and was now left with just his Yuan Spirit.
“Ten Thousand Swords Slice the Void!”
Just at this moment, flying swords slashed down. Ming Jie let out a furious roar, and his Yuan Spirit was about to detonate when suddenly a feather sliced through him.
This was the Blue Eye Peacock’s original true feather. It contained its divine might and caused his soul to shake. Meng Qi had joined in.
Meng Qi had activated the Blue Eye Peacock’s original true feather’s power, suppressing Ming Jie. Perhaps if he still had a physical body, he could have managed to resist, but with just his Yuan Spirit, he lost control. It felt like his soul was being torn apart.
Just as his soul was suppressed, Ye Lingshan’s swords pierced through him. Her Sword Qi instantly turned his soul into nothingness. A Corrupt King died just like that.
“You dare to use the same move twice in front of my boss? Definitely courting death,” sneered Guo Ran.
Last time, Ming Jie had used this technique to escape. Long Chen had pointed out the flaw in this technique, which was the moment where his physical body switched place with that puppet. As long as he was interrupted during that moment, he would be doomed. By attempting it again, he had lost his life.
However, Ming Jie’s power was witnessed by everyone. He was absolutely terrifying, and without that previous experience, there was no way he would have been killed.
Ye Lingshan suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. People were shocked to find that at some point, she had lost her left arm. Blood dyed half her body.
She had managed to force Ming Jie into an all-out clash, but she had paid a price. Her aura plummeted. Not only had she used up most of her spiritual yuan, but she had also suffered a heavy injury.
“I pledge my life to senior apprentice-sister Ye Lingshan!”
“I pledge my life to senior apprentice-sister Ye Lingshan!”
“I pledge my life to senior apprentice-sister Ye Lingshan!”
….
It was unknown who was the first to shout this, but all the Martial Heaven Alliance’s disciples began to shout, their voices ringing out louder and louder, shaking the world.
Long Chen smiled. Ye Lingshan had managed to win the hearts of these young disciples. She had done very well.
Ye Lingshan had finally shown her charisma as a leader. This would bring about a powerful cohesiveness and motivation within the Martial Heaven Alliance. That kind of power would grow stronger and stronger.
“You seem quite confident, like everything’s within your control,” said Huo Lieyun as he continued to attack Long Chen with his flame spear.
“Aren’t you the same? We’re in the same boat. You’re playing a game with me, but as for the final board, it will quickly be exposed,” said Long Chen indifferently.
Clearly, Huo Lieyun was the true person in charge of this battlefield. However, compared to Long Chen, he seemed slightly uneasy. Long Chen had been calm from start to end. Hence, he couldn’t tell what Long Chen was thinking.
BOOM!
Each of them forced the other back. They stared at one another.
On the battlefield, the Martial Heaven Alliance’s morale was soaring. Ye Lingshan was injured, causing her power to drop, but she still joined the troops to slaughter their enemies.
Huo Lieyun smiled. “Do you think the Martial Heaven Alliance can be saved?”
Clearly, Huo Lieyun was referring to Ye Lingshan. She had managed to receive Qu Jianying’s burden and was now reuniting the Martial Heaven Alliance.
“The Martial Heaven Alliance didn’t need saving in the first place. Your question is stupid.” Long Chen shook his head, lazily resting Evilmoon on his shoulder.
“Long Chen, you might think yourself clever, but you don’t even realize death has come for you.” Huo Lieyun smiled mockingly.
“This idiot expression of yours is quite irritating. No wonder the Pill Fairy doesn’t like you. If you get any closer, I’ll vomit.” Long Chen once more shook his head.
“Bullshit!” Huo Lieyun was instantly provoked. His voice was so loud that it made everyone else jump.
“Don’t be so loud. If your voice represented your power, then donkeys would have already taken control of this world. So you shouldn’t play such low-level stalling tactics with me. From the very start, I could tell something was up. The person who arranged this game is not you nor those two fellows from Heavenly Fate Island. You’re all listening to the moves from outside the board. It’s fine, I’m not in a rush. Stalling like this is actually really nice. In any case, your Pill Valley sent out the fewest people, and the ones dying belong to other powers. You don’t care how many people die from the Corrupt path, the ancient family alliance, the ancient races, or the Xuan Beasts. Actually, the more of them die, the more hatred they’ll feel for the Martial Heaven Alliance. Whether this battle is a misunderstanding or a trap, the seeds of hatred will already be planted. Pill Valley will still be the winner.”
When Long Chen’s lazy voice rang out, the expressions of everyone fighting changed. The hearts of the people in the coalition army dropped.
Through Long Chen’s reminder, they realized that Pill Valley had really only sent Huo Lieyun and those twelve experts of the Flame Divine Palace. There were hundreds of thousands of corpses strewn on the battlefield now, but they didn’t include Pill Valley’s people.
Even the neutral camp’s people were shocked. It seemed Long Chen had long since seen through Pill Valley’s intentions.
“Absolute nonsense! Do you think others can’t tell that you’re trying to sow dissension?!” shouted Huo Lieyun.
“No, you misunderstand me. I’m not saying that you’re an idiot, nor am I raising the question, because you are simply fundamentally an idiot,�
� said Long Chen innocently.
“You-!”
“Ah, here come the donkey sounds again. I told you, being loud is meaningless. If Pill Valley wants to con more idiots, it has nothing to do with me. If you want to play with me, then I’ll play you to death. In my eyes, none of you are innocent. If people have their own eyes and brains, they should be able to see the truth. If they don’t understand things but still raise their butcher blades, they can’t use the excuse that they were being used by others once things are over. Being used by others? What do they even have brains for? Innocent? What about the people they killed because of their idiocy? Are they not innocent? So to everyone who has raised their blades toward my friends of the Martial Haven Alliance, I’ll have to say I’m sorry for you.” Long Chen smiled coldly.
Huo Lieyun’s expression changed slightly. “What are you talking about?”
Just at this moment, the golden tide began to shudder.
“The golden tide’s about to retreat!” Startled cries rang out. The experts comprehending the golden tide began to awaken.
“You were stalling for time, but I was also doing the same thing. Sorry, but the time I was waiting for arrived first. I’ll be going,” said Long Chen with a grim smile. “Xia Chen, is the formation complete?”
Chapter 1902 Long Chen’s Appetite
“I haven’t failed your mission.”
Xia Chen’s voice rang out, causing everyone’s expressions to change.
Suddenly, rays of divine light began shining out of the ground. They were like pillars of light, enveloping the entire battlefield within them.
At the same time, formation runes began flowing in the air, and a figure appeared in the sky. It was Xia Chen.
Xia Chen had a giant formation disc above him. Divine light flowed out of it and created a dome that covered this region.
“What damn thing is this?!” One of the ancient race experts launched a furious sword blow at the formation. When his Sword Qi struck the barrier, it didn’t cause the slightest ripple. The Sword Qi simply vanished.
All the experts were shocked. Connecting this sudden change with Long Chen’s words, the coalition army’s people suddenly had a bad feeling.
Quite a few experts switched to attacking the formation, trying to charge out.
“Condense!” Suddenly, Xia Chen let out a cry. The formation disc above his head began to rapidly spin. Black ripples spread throughout the barrier.
“AHH!”
Mournful cries came from the experts attacking the formation. Black qi was corroding their bodies. In just a breath’s time, they transformed into a white skeleton. In two breaths’ time, their skeleton also corroded into nothing more than dust.
“What?!”
Now everyone was shocked. Hundreds of experts had just tried to break this barrier, including seven Empyreans. But even those Empyreans were slain.
“He’s drawing out the Yin world’s death’s energy!” shouted someone.
Following that person’s reminder, everyone finally noticed that a portion of this giant barrier was covering the Yin world’s barrier of death. It was absorbing that death energy.
Xia Chen had a gratified smile. This unusual but terrifying formation of his was actually working.
He had started secretly setting up this formation while the battle had been going on. That was the mission Long Chen had given him. Huo Lieyun had wild ambitions, but Long Chen’s ambitions were even bigger. He didn’t just want a simple victory but also the lives of all his enemies.
It could be said that this formation had used up all the accumulated wealth of the Dragonblood Legion. This was an absolutely terrifying formation, which had not only been set up secretly but was also absorbing some unknown death energy. It was a huge gamble with high odds of failure.
However, Xia Chen was a genius formation master. He had actually managed to succeed, so he was filled with pride.
It was only upon joining the Dragonblood Legion that he managed to have the money to squander on giant formations like this. Before this, there were many theoretical formations that he understood but hadn’t had the money to test. Only with a constant flow of money and a lot of testing could his skill increase, so this current accomplishment was thanks to Long Chen’s wealth.
Standing in this grand formation, he had a grand feeling like he was in control of this world. Regretfully, this formation was only a barrier formation, not a killing formation. Otherwise, he could use the death energy to annihilate everyone inside.
There wasn’t enough time to set something like that up, especially since the plan had only popped into Long Chen’s head when he had gathered with the Martial Heaven Alliance’s army. Xia Chen had only had three days to plan and prepare the materials.
The death barrier was like a haze covering this world, and the coalition army’s experts were finally afraid. Long Chen had come prepared.
The golden tide had now ended, and they could no longer feel the fluctuations of life and death energy merging. Instead, the only thing was this death qi.
“As expected, Long Chen is superior to those idiots like Huo Lieyun, Xie Luo, and True Immortal Jiaoqi.” The man in the neutral camp with the giant die spinning behind him smiled slightly. He had been extremely calm from the start, and even the arrival of this grand formation didn’t cause him the slightest nervousness.
Although everyone in the neutral camp knew that theoretically, no one would want to become enemies with them, the arrival of the giant death barrier meant that all their lives were in someone else’s hands. It was a very uncomfortable feeling.
“Big brother Long Chen is amazing! Big sister, look, it was clearly a chance to earn a favor from him, but you didn’t take it. Now you won’t get that chance!” Qi Xuan giggled, her previous nervousness having long since vanished.
Qi Fengxue glared at Qi Xuan but couldn’t be bothered to scold her. Qi Xuan couldn’t even understand just how complicated such a thing was for them.
There was also another woman in the neutral camp. She had an ordinary face and appearance. Looking up at Long Chen in the sky, she had a complicated expression.
The neutral camp’s experts retreated to a corner of the battlefield, not wanting to join in and expressing their neutrality.
However, the nervous people were those who were comparatively weaker. As for the top experts, they were calm. They still wanted to see what the conclusion of this battle would be. Based on the current standings, Long Chen’s side had only taken a slight advantage.
In this scenario, perhaps their chances of victory were higher, but Long Chen’s goal wasn’t just to win. He wanted to annihilate all of his enemies. That kind of appetite was frightening.
This was a true battle to the death. If the Martial Heaven Alliance’s side lost, then the Martial Heaven Alliance would fracture and perhaps collapse.
If the coalition army lost, it would also be a grievous blow to their side and severely impact their morale. The neutral camp’s experts watched with rapt interest.
“You want to devour all of us? Long Chen, your appetite’s quite big.” Huo Lieyun smiled.
“I’ve always had a big appetite. Most importantly, I don’t just have a good appetite but a good set of teeth as well.” Long Chen smiled brightly, revealing his teeth. Those teeth looked quite good normally, but now they seemed to shine with a cold light that gave others chills.
Long Chen’s smile suddenly vanished, replaced with overflowing killing intent. His gaze was as sharp as the tip of a blade.
“Alright, the time for talking is over. To dare kill my brothers of the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, I’ll have you all accompany them!” shouted Long Chen. “Is the Dragonblood Legion present?”
“Present!” The Dragonblood warriors’ roar shook the sky.
“Kill them all! Don’t leave a single one alive! Vengeance for our fallen brothers!”
“Kill!”
The Dragonblood warriors charged out once more. This time, they were like devils
incarnate, their blades slaughtering their enemies mercilessly.
Their charge shattered the courage of these trapped experts. They fell back continuously, trying to avoid the Dragonblood warriors.
The Dragonblood Legion’s addition to the battle instantly made them the strongest force. The Martial Heaven Alliance’s disciples naturally followed behind them, slaughtering their enemies.
“Zhao Tianji, when are our reinforcements getting here?” Seeing this unfavorable situation, Huo Lieyun finally started to get a bit worried. He sent a message to one of the Fate Princes.
“They’ll be here quickly! It should be in an hour!” replied the Fate Prince who was hiding in the crowd.
“An hour?! In an hour, the entire coalition army will be annihilated! Which idiot planned this timing? Were they trying to con us?!” This time, even Huo Lieyun was infuriated with Heavenly Fate Island.
In an hour, most of their members would have been killed by the Dragonblood warriors.
Long Chen had said that Pill Valley was intentionally making the various large powers sacrifice a portion of their experts in order to make them feel hatred for the Martial Heaven Alliance. This deduction of his was accurate. Pill Valley was intentionally uniting the large powers against the Martial Heaven Alliance.
However, there was already enough hatred planted. If all these people were killed, how would Pill Valley and Heavenly Fate Island explain themselves to those large powers?
That Fate Prince’s expression was ugly. Huo Lieyun had just insulted all of Heavenly Fate Island’s people. This plan was plotted by all of Heavenly Fate Island’s calculations. However, none of them had expected things to go awry at every turn. Their plan was supposed to be flawless, but now it had turned against them. If Huo Lieyun didn’t know about Heavenly Fate Island’s enmity with Long Chen, he would really suspect that Heavenly Fate Island was helping Long Chen out.
Heavenly Fate Island had succeeded in scheming against Long Chen multiple times, including the underground battlefield of the Devil Slaughter Rankings. They had mostly been successful.